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Crisis Classroom trains volunteer and professional teachers to create life-saving and life-changing education for people who find themselves in crisis both in and outside the system. Our training gives you practical tools to become a safe and effective teacher delivering skills and language based activities in a way that is welcoming and useful for people in crisis. After a year of teaching and training teachers in the Jungle camp, Calais, we noticed that many people who were giving their time to support refugees were unprepared for the issues they faced and the needs of the people they were there to help. We have developed this training to bridge that gap.

Foundation training is split into two days, which can be taken together or one at a time.

Day 1 How to Show Up - Wednesday 21 June: Understand how our environment and experiences affect our capacity to learn and connect with others. You will learn how to:

recognise and regulate trauma

communicate effectively under stress

work in diverse teaching teams

use our unique methodology to become a safe space for learning

Day 2 How to Build Resources - Thursday 22 June: Understand how to use your skills to create psycho-socially protective activities. You will learn how to:

build activities that mirror the self-regulation cycle of the nervous system

create lesson plans and teacher notes

layer in simple language acquisition

create full schemes of work with other participants

Day 2 training can only be taken if you have attended Day 1 training first. We have a package deal which allows you to book both days at once at a substantial discount.

Crisis Classroom trainings use a mix of experiential and theoretical practices which are designed to be both thought provoking and fun. We treat education as partnership and welcome your contributions at all stages of training.

Although the tools you will learn have been designed as a foundation to become a Crisis Classroom teacher, this information will be useful in any situation where you are volunteering with vulnerable people.

We keep our training costs as low as possible, but if you would like to make a donation we will use funds raised to support our pilot project to trial an inflatable, pop-up classroom in different refugee contexts around Europe. You can follow our progress on Facebook to find out where we are going and how the classroom is being used.